Pocket



STATESi POCKET.

Application filed March 21, 1921.

To all 'wlwm it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN LEE KIRK, a citizen .of the United States, residing at lVaynesboro, in the county of Franklin and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful Improvements in Pockets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a pocket for garments, the general object of the invention being to provide a pocket which may be easily and quickly placed in position in a garment the original pocket of which has become worn so that a person can repair his pocket without taking the garment to a tailor.

Another object of the invention is to provide the pocket with a strip of adhesive so that the pocket can be connected with the garment very easily and quickly and without sewing.

Another object of the invention is to make the pocket adjustable to fit different sizes of pocket openings in the garment.

This invention also consists in certain other features of construction and in the combination and arrangement of the several parts, to be hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings and specifically pointed out in the appended claim.

In describing my invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings wherein like characters denote like or corresponding parts throughout the sev eral views, and in which Figure 1 is a fragmentary view showing my pocket attached to a garment.

Figure 2 is a view of the pocket itself.

Figure 3 is an end view looking into the opening in the trousers pocket.

Figure 4- is a view of another style of pocket constructed in accordance with my invention.

As shown in these views the pocket 1 is of the general shape of pockets used in garments. Figures 1, 2 and 3 show a pocket adapted to be placed at the sides of trousers While Figure lshows a pocket for an overcoat or coat and where the opening is at the top. The pockets can be made of various shapes to suit the pockets in the garments for which they are to be substituted.

The pocket is made of any suitable mate- Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 18, 1922.

Serial No. 454,179.

rial, such as canvas and the like. Around the opening 2 in the pocket a band of adhesive 3 is placed so that the new pocket can be attached to the garment by moistening this band and pressing it by the hand or by an iron against the garment.

In order to make the pocket fit different sizes of openings in garments I make the opening adjustable by forming a flap 5 at the top of the pocket which is adapted to fit in a small pocket 6 formed at the opposite side from the side forming the flap. Thus by adjusting the extent to which the "lap extends into the pocket 6 the sides of the opening 2 can be varied. to suit the opening in the garment.

The pocket shown in Figures 1 and 2 has its opening formed at the top of one side so that it can be placed in the worn pocket at the side of a pair of trousers. The pocket shown in Figure at has the opening at its top and is adapted to be placed in the pocket of a coat or the like.

By my invention anyone can quickly and easily repair his pockets without going to a tailor and without sewing though the pocket can be sewed if desired. My pocket can be removed. from a garment when de sired by simply moistening the adhesive strip to loosen the pocket from the garment.

My device can be placed inside of the old pocket or the old pocket can be cut out and my pocket substituted.

It is thought from the foregoing descrip tion that the advantages and novel features of my invention will be readily apparent.

I desire it to be understood that I may make changes in the construction and in the combination. and arrangement of the several parts, provided that such changes fall within the scope of the appended claim.

'VVhat I claim is A. pocket for replacing a worn pocket of a garment having an opening therein and a strip of adhesive around the opening and means for adjusting the size of the opening, such means consisting of a flap formed of one side of the pocket and a small pocket at the opposite side thereof for receiving the flap.

In testimony whereof I afliX my signature.

JOHN LEE KIRK. 

